You will need
My zip file HERE
Please respect those who made the contents and do not change the file names
1: Place the gradient supplied in your gradients folder.
Set your foreground to the dmspaleblues gradient angle and repeats set at zero style linear. Invert is not checked.
Set the background to a darker shade from your image.
2: Open a new transparent canvas 625X500 and fill with the gradient. Settings as above.
3: Layers new raster layer. Fill with the same gradient but change the angle to 45 and repeats to 1.
4: Open the multishape mask and minimize.
Layers, new mask layer, from image. Locate the mask and apply with the following settings. Source luminance is checked invert is not checked. Right click on the mask layer. Merge, merge group. Adjust sharpness, sharpen more.
5: Open the Tube3033_At_the_end_of_the_seaso_ tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.
Image resize 80% bicubic making sure all layers is not checked. Position as in the main graphic.
Change the blend mode to luminance legacy and lower the opacity to around 60%.
Effects, edge effects enhance.
6: Open the Decor-Nostalgie-TCH tube. Click on the bar at the top copy. Back to working canvas, paste as a new layer. Change the blend mode to luminance legacy. Adjust, sharpness, sharpen.
Apply the following drop shadow.
7: Open the dmsteardrops. Click on the bar at the top copy. Back to working canvas, paste as a new layer. Change the blend mode to luminance legacy and apply the same drop shadow as in 6.
8: Open the sweetwoman_peperina12052010a tube. Making sure the tube layer is active click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer. Position as in the main graphic.
9: Add your watermark and any text you may require. When you are happy how everything looks merge all, flatten.
10: Image add borders 1 in the darker colour you chose at the start.
11: Image add borders 20 white. Select with the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero and fill with the gradient.
12: Open the dmssoftnessframe. Click on the bar at the top copy. Back to working canvas. Paste as a new layer.
Merge all flatten.
13: Repeat step 10.
14: Save as a jpg and you are all done.
This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on September 18, 2010
No copyright infringement is intended as this is purely for the learning experience gained through creating this tag.
This tutorial must not be passed through e-mail, groups or by any other method without written permission from myself.
Thank you to Gail for testing this tutorial.
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